u/Ree_For_Thee

I have a pet theory that 'base mood' in your life is highly tied to metabolic health and how healthy your body is in general, but the only thing I'm basing that on is how our behavior around food was altered so radically due to GLP-1s.

What do you believe? I assume most people are happier once the weight is off, but do you believe you're happier because of that, or because your metabolism/general health and diet is better?

Wrote this in another sub. The context was a comic about a transgendered woman who "only" placed 44th in the country, where the "only" part was the main argument. As in, "it doesn't matter she was biologically male before because she doesn't even rank in the top". I objected.

My take is it's not fair per a very pure definition. We don't know how much better or worse she is compared to a non-changed body, since that non-changed body doesn't exist.

If she's slightly better than place 43th because of her circumstances, then that's an unfair edge to the 43rd runner up and all of the people below that placement.

While it's not a big issue, you can't also shield it from criticism just because transphobes happen to exist. If you can't compete with a non-changed body, you can't, and you should accept this small concession in return for the body you feel you belong in. It's only fair.

And then I got instantly permabanned for either "hate speech" or "transphobia" in r/transgenderUSA. They piled on the accusations because it was obviously not done in good faith.

It's actually quite frustrating how bigoted trans discussions on reddit (and likely elsewhere) are, because while I don't consider myself hateful at all, I enjoy discussing things in order to learn. But with trans issues...... (shakes head) it's just not possible. Time and time again you get the same stereotype of "if you're not with us you're literally Satan". Toe the line. Say only nice things. And if you don't, you're more often than not just outright banned. Several times I had people go through my post history in order to ad hominem things, and so, bigoted trans allies are the main reason my post history is hidden, lol.

It's just ironic. These people preach tolerance, but refuse to practice it. If people can't even be genuinely curious and ask questions without being labeled "hateful", obviously people will get pushed to the right, because "those LGBT people are all insane and hateful".

Just sayin', u/TransgenderUSA-ModTeam.

I've had it for 15 years and it started in coincidence with a slow but steady weight gain, implying my metabolism's been unhealthy since then. The metabolism is essentially the body's system of directing and managing resources, so if it gets disrupted you get a lot of changes, not just an increase in weight.

The new weight-loss drugs with GLP-1s are essentially metabolism healing drugs, so it makes sense that as I'm now losing weight and curing my metabolic issues, stuff tied to that starts getting fixed. It's already widely known that inflammation decreases on these drugs, but it also makes sense that my body's ability to more accurately control if/when/where histamines are deployed gets fixed.

I'm no longer waking up in the middle of the night from unconsciously scratching my back or legs! And just now I tried scratching my arm, which just a few months ago would've cause a lot of raised skin. Nuthin'. I'm cured!

Go get some Zepbound/Mounjaro as that's what I'm on. It's the more advanced weight-loss drug, compared to Ozempic/Wegovy.

One user here linked an article about the French fires, now record large. How large? 50% larger than the largest fire ever, which was just 4 years ago. Anyway, he said "162 pyromaniacs arrested", not really saying anything tangible, only implying that "this is the reason for the fires".

My reply: "So? Is that an increase from previous levels?

If not, then why are the fires so much bigger this year? They're an extreme amount of bigger, after all. Over a third of a million have fled.

You can't answer, and the reason is because you're literally just bad at thinking because nobody taught you how. So let me.

Here's the problem: When you've reached the conclusion you wanted, using "confirmation bias", you stop thinking. You stop reading. You stop researching.

Confirmation bias is basically "I don't know any facts, but I want a certain conclusion, so I'll only believe articles that agree with my opinion, and nothing else, even if the majority of articles don't agree with my opinion". So you came across an article blaming pyromaniacs...... actually, it didn't even blame pyromaniacs, it implies that pyromaniacs are behind it. And like clockwork, you believe it, and you stop."

I believe literally every post in this sub can be explained with "I just stopped researching once I found my excuse". The excuse can be literally anything. "Oh it's been warm before" (not like this). "Oh the climate is fine, it's heated like this before" (it has never in earth's existence done that).

But what you don't know is that there's a giant machine, run by the tech bros, the rich, the right-wing parties of the world, that intentionally creates excuses like this, that abuse people's confirmation bias in order to stop you from thinking.

It's extremely well-documented, and you can read hundreds of articles about this propaganda machine, again, if you just continue thinking. Good luck.

https://old.reddit.com/search?q=author%3A%28RhubarbLarge2747%29&restrict_sr=&sort=new&t=all

I thought this was interesting, but you decide. This guy is a typical, likely Indian, spam account. 80-90% of the posts are just random AI generated nonsense posted to get the account warmed up (and waste people's time), and the rest are in the theme of "pro China". Oh, and they post dozens and dozens of times a day.

Several posts talks positively about Chinese products like messaging services, AI dictation gadgets, laser hair removal and so on. But some posts are "anti western" in their theme. One (now deleted) was against electric bikes, from an American perspective. And one post tries to discredit GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for reasons I can't really figure out. They.... want westerner to die? I don't think they have any competing GLP-1 products, or any stake in the western food industry.

Regardless, it's a manipulation account and someone is paying him to post pro China stuff. There are some recruitment posts by the guy too, likely because he's getting a commission from recruiting people (all terrible attempts FWIW). "Copy-paste stuff, get paid in crypto".

At least I thought it was interesting. shrug

Thought this was an interesting enough question to post. I think many are legitimately interested in knowing.

Recently, a famous Youtube journalist revealed that Ireland is supplying Russia's war machine with "alumina", basically the raw form used to produce aluminum, just one step from becoming usable, which happens in Russia. They've been dodging sanctions, threatening/bribing politicians/journalists etc., and hopefully they'll get sanctioned soon as the scandal has been revealed, but a kinetic sanction would be more efficient.

They do take a route through the Baltic sea, close to Scandinavia and Germany, and dock in St. Petersburg. I don't know if Ukraine has any activity there.

I open Gmail in a new tab > delete some stuff....

But I have to wait to close the tab like 10-20 seconds before it's actually deleted or the notification doesn't go away... ugh.

Basically, little tricks, or just realizations that help you in various ways.

For example, my non-belief in free will alleviates me of a lot from guilt, as I understand that everything that ever happened to me was inevitable, even the bad stuff I do. Guilt is likely a feeling evolved to in order to fit into society, which evolution selected for because tribes needed a lot of harmony to be successful. It's stupid to dwell on guilt as long as you feel you've learned your lesson. Regret too, same reason.